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Security Assurance Levels: A Vector Approach to Describing Security Requirements

October 20, 2010

Author(s)

James D. Gilsinn, Ragnar Schierholz

Safety systems have used the concept of safety integrity levels (SILs) for almost two decades. This allows the safety of a component or system to be represented...

Bicubic B-Spline Surface Approximation of Invariant Tori

October 20, 2010

Author(s)

Sita Ramamurti, David E. Gilsinn

The invariant torus of a coupled system of Van der Pol oscillators is approximated using bicubic B-splines. The paper considers the case of strong nonlinear...

NEHRP Seismic Design Technical Brief No. 4 - Nonlinear Structural Analysis for Seismic Design: A Guide for Practicing Engineers

October 15, 2010

Author(s)

Gregory Deierlein, Andrei Reinhorn, Michael Willford

Workshop on Quantitative Tools for Condition Assessment of Aging Infrastructure

October 14, 2010

Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson, Thomas A. Siewert, Jessica Terry, Dat Duthinh, Mark Iadicola, William E. Luecke, Joseph D. McColskey

The Quantitative Tools for Condition Assessment of Aging Infrastructure Workshop was held May 4-5, 2010, in Boulder, Colorado. It was organized by a team of...

Disaster Resilience: A Guide to the Literature

October 13, 2010

Author(s)

Stanley W. Gilbert

Although there is a great deal of high-quality information available on resilience-related topics hazard assessment, vulnerability assessment, risk assessment...

Further Studies of Bootstrap Variability for ROC Analysis on Large Datasets

October 11, 2010

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Raghu N. Kacker

The nonparametric two-sample bootstrap is successfully applied to computing the measurement uncertainties in receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis on...

Validation of Two-Sample Bootstrap in ROC Analysis on Large Datasets Using AURC

October 11, 2010

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Raghu N. Kacker

Sampling variability can result in uncertainties of measures. The nonparametric two-sample bootstrap method has been used to compute uncertainties of measures...

Practical Combinatorial Testing

October 7, 2010

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei

Combinatorial testing can help detect problems like this early in the testing life cycle. The key insight underlying t-way combinatorial testing is that not...

NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (2011 Ed.)

October 4, 2010

Author(s)

Linda D. Crown, Tina Butcher, Steven E. Cook

Handbook 44 was first published in 1949, having been preceded by similar handbooks of various designations and in several forms. This 2011 edition was developed...

Methodology for Calculating Construction Industry Supply Chain Statistics

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

Data from the Economic Census provides detailed statistics on the construction industry; however, the data is only gathered every five years. The Bureau of...

Guide to Securing WiMAX Wireless Communications

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

Karen Scarfone, Cyrus Tibbs, Matt Sexton

The purpose of this document is to provide information to organizations regarding the security capabilities of wireless communications using WiMAX networks and...

Security Architecture Design Process for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

Matthew Scholl, Kevin Stine, Kenneth Lin, Daniel Steinberg

The purpose of this publication is to provide a systematic approach to designing a technical security architecture for the exchange of health information that...

Requirements to Support a Modern Architecture for Industrial Data and Industrial Data Standards on the Semantic Web

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

Evan K. Wallace, Allison Barnard Feeney, David Leal

The ISO subcommittee tasked with developing standards for industrial data, TC 184/SC 4, has recently undertaken an effort to define a new, more flexible...

Constraint Generator User's Guide

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

Salifou Sidi Malick, Matthew Molek, Katherine C. Morris

This document describes the Constraint Generator. The Constraint Generator is a tool developed at NIST to automate the generation of schematron scripts for an...

Concrete Model Building Subtypes

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

William T. Holmes

This study was conducted by the National Institute of Building Sciences Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC). The goal was to develop standardized categories...

FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION, LOW EXPONENT LEVY STABLE LAWS, AND SLOW MOTION DENOISING OF HELIUM ION MICROSCOPE NANOSCALE IMAGERY

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

Alfred S. Carasso, Andras Vladar

MEMS Young's Modulus and Step Height Measurements with Round Robin Results

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

Janet M. Cassard, Richard A. Allen, Craig D. McGray, Jon C. Geist

This paper presents the results of a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) Young s modulus and step height round robin experiment, completed in April 2009...

National Workshop on Challenges to Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing: Industry Drivers and R&D Needs

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

John A. Slotwinski

Representatives from manufacturers, academic research laboratories, the federal government and other organizations met on November 3rd and 4th, 2009 in...

Economics of Egress Alternatives and Life-Safety Costs

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

Robert E. Chapman, David T. Butry, Allison L. Huang, Douglas S. Thomas

Fire protection measures are needed to maintain the safety and integrity of the Nation s building stock and to limit loss of life and property when building...

Impacts of Airtightening Retrofits on Ventilation Rates and Energy Consumption in a Manufactured Home

September 29, 2010

Author(s)

Steven J. Nabinger, Andrew K. Persily, William Stuart Dols

A retrofit study was conducted in a manufactured house to investigate the impacts of airtightening on ventilation rates and energy consumption. This paper...

Effect of Al₂O₃ Nanolubricant on a Passively Enhanced R134a Pool Boiling Surface with Extensive Measurement and Analysis Details (NIST TN 1677)

September 29, 2010

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

This paper quantifies the influence of Al2O3 nanoparticles on the pool boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a Turbo-BII-HP boiling surface...

Real-Time Monitoring of Total Inward Leakage of Respiratory Equipment Used by Emergency responders: Workshop Proceedings

September 27, 2010

Author(s)

Kathryn Butler, Marc R. Nyden, Rodney Bryant

A workshop on respirator sensors was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on May 1, 2009. The objective of this workshop was to...

Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP): Helping Organizations Maintain and Verify the Security of their Information Systems

September 27, 2010

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-117, Guide To Adopting and Using the Security Content Automation...

Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory Educational Version 2.0 User Guide

September 24, 2010

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Bullard

This document serves as the users guide for the educational version of the Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory (VCCTL) software, version 2.0. Using...

Overall and Local Movement Speeds During Fire Drill Evacuations in Buildings up to 31 Stories

September 17, 2010

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Bryan L. Hoskins, Erica D. Kuligowski

The time that it takes an occupant population to reach safety when descending a stairwell during building evacuations is typically described by measureable...

A Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators for Cryptographic Applications

September 16, 2010

Author(s)

Lawrence E. Bassham, Andrew L. Rukhin, Juan Soto, James R. Nechvatal, Miles E. Smid, Stefan D. Leigh, M Levenson, M Vangel, Nathanael A. Heckert, D L. Banks

This paper discusses some aspects of selecting and testing random and pseudorandom number generators. The outputs of such generators may be used in many...

Applicability of Nonlinear Multiple-Degree-of-Freedom Modeling for Design - Supporting Documentation

September 15, 2010

Author(s)

Michael Valley, Mark Aschheim, Craig Comartin, William Holmes, Helmut Krawinkler, Mark Sinclair

This report presents findings, conclusions, and recommendations resulting from a review of available research and practice regarding nonlinear multiple-degree...

Applicability of Nonlinear Multiple-Degree-of-Freedom Modeling for Design

September 15, 2010

Author(s)

Michael Valley, Mark Aschheim, Craig Comartin, William Holmes, Helmut Krawinkler, Mark Sinclair

In 2008, NIST initiated Task Order 68241 entitled "Improved Nonlinear Static Seismic Analysis Procedures Multiple-Degree-of-Freedom Modeling." The purpose of...

Fabrication, Characterization, and Flammability Testing of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Layer-by-Layer Coated Polyurethane Foam

September 15, 2010

Author(s)

Rick Davis, Yeon S. Kim

The research presented here is the first report of fabricating mulitwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) based thin coatings on polyurethane foam (PUF) using Layer-by...

Measurement Uncertainties in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

September 15, 2010

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, Raghu N. Kacker

The speaker recognition evaluation is an ongoing series of evaluations conducted by NIST. A detection cost function is computed over the sequence of trials...

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